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With West Indies-inspired architecture, this house at 225 Indian Road on the north tip of Palm Beach sold earlier this year for $32 million. Photo by Darrell Hofheinz / Daily News

With West Indies-inspired architecture, this house at 225 Indian Road on the north tip of Palm Beach sold earlier this year for $32 million. Photo by Darrell Hofheinz / Daily News

When there’s a nearby cruise ship, who needs a drone, a balloon or a helicopter to get a nice close-up photo of the houses facing the inlet on the North End of Palm Beach?

These house photos were taken Saturday from the ninth deck of the Grand Celebration, a cruise ship that sails every other day from the Port of Palm Beach for Freeport, the capital of Grand Bahama Island. The two-night, 170-mile round trip takes passengers through the Lake Worth Inlet, offering a seagull’s view of Palm Beach and its waterfront houses.

Among the inlet homes on view is a just-completed residence at 225 Indian Road, which changed hands, unfinished, in February for a recorded $32 million. It was developed by the Frisbie family and sold it to a Delaware limited liability company. Corcoran Group agent Suzanne Frisbie handled both sides of the deal.

It’s a couple of houses down from a much older home, completed on the inlet in 1977, that sold last week for a recorded $9 million at 1610 N. Ocean Blvd. Broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate had the listing, acting on behalf of the estate of the late Seymour Cohn. The buyer was a limited liability company represented by Suzanne Frisbie.

The Grand Celebration, by the way, was built as a Carnival ship but has been retrofitted and refurbished. It’s operated by Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line.

On the dock at the end of North Ocean Boulevard in Palm Beach in May, spectators watch as the Grand Celebration sails from the Port of Palm Beach out of the inlet, bound for the Bahamas. Photo by Darrell Hofheinz / Daily News

At the northeast tip of Palm Beach, an oceanfront house at 149 E. Inlet Drive is being marketed at $19.85 million by broker Lawrence Moens of Lawrence A. Moens Associates. Photo by Darrell Hofheinz / Daily News

This red-roofed house developed on speculation in 2008 finally sold six years later for $6.6 million. Agent Adam Jackson of The Fite Group represented himself as the seller in that deal. Photo by Darrell Hofheinz / Daily News

The red-roofed house here was completed this year at 219 Indian Road and is home to members of the Frisbie family, who developed and built it. Note the sandy beach fronting the inlet. Photo by Darrell Hofheinz / Daily News